actually my last paragraph was neither a troll nor a dung wad falling from anywhere, it was a direct "move your computer to another room, moron" statement for those who may not have thought of the obvious. if your significant other is disturbed by your use of the built in voice communications system while trying to sleep, then one of you is in the wrong room.
I understood your meaning behind the statement completely, it was Raph that misjudged your lack of respect. Thank you for proving my point. And the irony of you of all people calling someone else a moron is STAGGERING! So let me answer your questions once again so that you wont hurt yourself trying to figure it out.
check 6 reply, as raphael pointed out could work the same as a .r command would, directed at the last person who private messaged you. would take a bit more programming to address multiple people, assuming it didn't muck something else up.
Yes it COULD, but #1 you still cant seem to grasp the concept of the reply being routed to the range channel. There is NO
"programming to address multiple people" and NO "mucking" anything up. IT PLAYS ON RANGE CHANNEL. PERIOD #2 It would not be any easier to route it to a single person than it would to route it to the range channel. We are talking about maybe 1 line of code. #3 What difference does it make if everyone on range channel hears a reply that is not specifically directed at them? They hear the same stuff all the time. #4 As I said before it is more beneficial to put it on range than try to address a single person because if more than one person gives a check 6, a reply of "thanks for the check" or "copy check" does not have to be issued several different times.
as for a range message that verbalizes something like "<name a plane> down", with the large number of aircraft in the lineup how would something like that work? some fancy programming that determines what type of plane you're shooting at and automatically fills in the blank just in case you might want to make the announcement? or maybe a dropdown list for a person to choose from? kind of a waste of time considering voice comms is already built in and can be mapped to any button on your joystick.
Because you dont seem to pay attention to who said what, I said NOTHING about a command that said "<name a plane> down." But for your information, it would not be exceedingly difficult for them to program it so that when you padlock an object of any kind it is automatically identified in a text or voice message. The only problem with that is they would have to have a recording for each and every aircraft or object. I NEVER advocated this and I think Raph only used it as an example off the top of his head. He never suggested he had all the answers or THAT particular command was a MUST HAVE. It was just an example. So pay attention to what people are saying, ask if you dont understand, or stay out of it.
considering the juvenile mentality that is heavily prevalent from people of all ages, what does anyone seriously think would happen if there was a programmable keyboard command to announce "tally ho" or "you are clear", especially if custom sounds can be used? i've seen it happen in other games, there is always someone who has nothing better to do than annoy other people and if you give them a way to do it they will.
Do you REALLY have that little lack of understanding of how this game works? Custom sounds are ONLY heard on your own computer. NO ONE else hears them but you, so how do you figure this even matters? The only sounds we are talking about here are EXACTLY like a check 6 except with a different message. If someone wants to use obnoxious custom sounds, he wont be bothering anyone but himself.
And for the last frkn time, if someone wants to annoy anyone in the game by hitting a command he can check 6 you until his heart is content or a mod gives him the boot, so what is the difference?
If HTC wants to stop that kind of thing they can program it so that excessive, repeated commands would get the user muted or booted.
Now is there anything else you dont understand?